Dan Stevens is the one genuinely likeable element to this dreary Downton-on-Sea.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Regardless of its true-story credentials, Summer In February seems to have been cobbled together from the moldy spare parts of countless Masterpiece Theater PBS movies.

| Original Score: 1.0/5 | Jan 31, 2014

In the end, it's a miserable movie about miserable people, and we're left to wonder why. But any further time spent considering this forgettable romance feels wasted.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 17, 2014

It's sad when a movie that aspires to tell a sad, even tragic, story can't quite connect, and lies there inert on the screen instead of galvanizing or even stirring emotions the way it means to.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 17, 2014

Compared with the tepid contretemps of "Summer in February," the soap-opera theatrics of "Downton Abbey" have the depth of Chekhov.

| Jan 16, 2014

Cooper stomps around ineffectually, Stevens makes for a blandly tame suitor, and Browning is unable to ignite any chemistry with either. The scenery is stunning. But the swooning has all the heat of a midwinter's swim.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2014

A ceaselessly bland take on the famed Lamorna artists' colony in Cornwall, circa 1911.

| Jan 14, 2014

As sumptuous as it is immensely shallow, the film practically revels in its attention to lush English landscapes as a means to distract from its derivative storytelling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 14, 2014

Blah Britpic offers scenery but little else.

| Jan 14, 2014

A poor script and patchy performances drag down this Edwardian-era drama.

| Jan 14, 2014

We're supposed to be saddened that their world is ending and that the first World War, with its awful human toll, looms. Instead we're thinking where are the bloody Germans when you need them?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2013

In the end, it seems to be much ado about nothing very much, despite the pleasing performances and scenery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2013

Proof that truth is duller than fiction comes with this tale of real events in the Lamorna artists' colony in Cornwall in the months before the first world war.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2013

The wind swept Cornish coast sings of dramatic romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2013

While the melodrama occasionally grates, this works as a raw romance and an intriguing glimpse of a bold and brash artist ahead of his time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2013